The Siyavula team are continually impressed with the student support at our Hackathons. And last night was no exception. Even with exams looming less than a week away, we still had a solid turnout of 20 volunteers at last nights event. One loyal volunteer was heard saying that these Hackathons offer him a nice break from his hours of study. Now that’s dedication! Although most volunteers last night were regulars, it was great to see a few new faces among the crowd.

Heather’s new system of chapter allocation and information capturing is in full swing, and the process is now a smooth running machine. The volunteers either carried on with their previous weeks work or were assigned new or partially finished chapters. When the Pizzas arrived we showed a YouTube video of Mark Shuttleworth talking about the use of Open Resources and systems at Stellenbosch University. He also mentions the great work Siyavula and Mark Horner continue to do. A link to the vid can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcOa0QJHkg

Due to the time constraints our volunteers are experiencing, many are now exploring the route of becoming virtual volunteers. If you are interested in becoming a virtual volunteer the Ideal Process to follow is:

1. Access books on a.nnotate.com (links available on http://www.markhorner.net):

   Mathematics Grade 12: http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2010-10-08&c=M4p01euS

   Physical Science Grade 12: http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2010-10-08&c=enzaEmdn

2. Select an exercise in any book that has no solution and no annotation about a solution on FullMarks

3. Highlight the question and an annotation window pops up – annotate the question saying that you are working on a solution

4. Create a question on FullMarks with the full step-by-step model solution and finalise it (see details a bit later for some guidance on this)

5. View your finalised question and answer on FullMarks – copy the url

6. Return to a.nnotate.com and add the url you copied to the annotation in the book that you created in step 3

7. Log in to www.fhsst.org (this is at the very bottom of the FHSST page)

8. Create a short url by going to www.fhsst.org/shorten selecting “Shorten url” option from the menu and pasting the full question url into the box and submitting

9. Copy the resulting code from the short url (i.e. just copy XYZ when the short url is www.fhsst.org/answers/XYZ) and add this to the annotation in the book as well

10. Return to step 1. and repeat for another question

Only the links to Grade 12 Maths and Science has been made available since we are in the process of uploading the worked solutions for grade 10 and 11.

The determination of our volunteers is certainly paying off! These graphs show the steady progress we are making. We now hope to get these worked solutions checked and rechecked to ensure that we achieve the highest possible quality of textbooks.

We would like to thank our volunteers and everyone involved for making this project such a success. See you next week for some pizza eating, keyboard tapping fun!

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